Michal Christine Escobar

Senior Editor, Hotels

Author Profile

Michal Christine Escobar is Hospitality Technology’s Senior Editor, with a concentration on the hotel industry. She has a decade of experience as a B2B journalist. She is responsible for the hotel beat at the magazine and often writes about AI, VR, IoT and other emerging technologies affecting hospitality.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

11/6/2022
Travelport Joins Travalyst Coalition and Escalates Focus on Sustainability in Travel Retailing
Travelport’s product and technology leaders will now take an active role in collaborating on the Travalyst framework and implementing its methodology for emissions reporting in travel retailing.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/6/2022
Hotel Network Infrastructure: Avoiding Transport Network Chokepoints
The advent of Wi-Fi 6, the increased availability of multi-gigabit circuits, and the trend of brands evolving throughput standards, are requiring properties to start looking at their overall network infrastructure to identify chokepoints that could inhibit the combined throughput of guest usage.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/6/2022
Factor Technology into Your 2023 Hotel Budgets
Consumers have come to expect, and demand, technologies that create streamlined, contactless experiences.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/6/2022
AHLA Survey Finds Americans Plan to Travel for the Holidays and Stay in Hotels
AHLA introduces Hotel Booking Index Rating to gauge hotel Industry outlook.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/3/2022
Great Wolf Resorts Names John Murphy as Chief Executive Officer

Michal Christine Escobar
11/3/2022
How Blockchain Technology Will Disrupt Hotel and Event Bookings
NFT’s are an ideal way to represent a digitized hotel reservation, and the blockchain is ideal for proving those reservations are authentic, showing who holds them, and enabling them to be displayed for sale and traded on a marketplace.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/3/2022
The Firefighter Syndrome in Hospitality: How to Solve It Before It Ruins Your Hotel
If your managers are always running around putting out fires, they’re not able to be creative, proactive or productive.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/2/2022
Hospitality Tech Company Journey Secures $5.63M Investment to Transform Hotels with eCommerce
Product development and team growth priorities for the UK company.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/2/2022
Farmer Boys Announces Appointment of Joseph Ortiz as President and Chief Operating Officer
Ortiz replaces Dave Wetzel who retires after 37 years in the restaurant industry.

Michal Christine Escobar
11/2/2022
Demand or Decline: Business Travel Contracting in Uncertain Times
With so much uncertainty surrounding the future of business travel, sophisticated sourcing platforms that can analyze real-time market data and determine fair market rates will be of the utmost importance.

Michal Christine Escobar